Glossary C
Glossary C
Coos refer to vowel-like sounds that young infants repeat over and over during periods of contentment.
COPE refers to a measurement for coping strategies. By contrast to Ways of Coping measurement, the development of the COPE was theoretically guided, and items were created to tap a predetermined set of coping strategies.
Coping is defined as the process of making efforts to manage distressing problems and emotions that affect the physical and psychological outcomes of stress.. In the stress and coping paradigm, it refers to any attempt to deal with stress. It is the general term for how people attempt to deal with traumas and go back to functioning effectively in life. It is the active efforts to master, reduce, or tolerate the demands created by stress. Moreover, Coping also refer to strategies that individuals use to manage the distressing problems and emotions in their lives.
Coping appraisal is a term used in protection motivation theory, that refers to the evaluation of one's ability to successfully avoid or cope with negative outcomes. If one concludes that one is unlikely to cope effectively by refraining from an undesired behavior, one will be more likely to engage in the behavior.